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    "ocrText": "-3-\nNot only doss a strong second party provido the electorate with legisistivo\nalternatives but\nalso a remarkably high Level of honesty and frankness. Thousand Our Aubrican news\nunstuffing the dirt,\nde have a noble tradition in domanding the bureting the bubble of propaganda,\nand exposing our\nthe compt compt. You can perform your job better if the relative strengths of\nt,\ntwo parties are more nearly in minon, and not so far out of kilter.\nTo make our Federal government function better, (to help you ant the facts,\nhave comp up with this which\nRepublicans in Congresa ande new idea would be . in the right direction.\nit has fother this:\nWhen both the Executive and Legislative branches are dominated by the same political\nparty, the on Operations and Senate, have\nCommittees Government of the Housia which boad\ninvestigating authority, should be under the control of the minority party. For is\nof legalized collusion when ve find the suspect and the Motrict Atcorney are bloed\nrelatives. the properting\n&\nIncreased other hand, is\nHere a genuine vehicle to assucing that the voice of the minority would\nis\nbe heard, that the majority would be constantly on notice that Ato astions or insctions were\nHere would be anassurance\nsubject to effective and critical any\nreviou, that the public through your help would know\nthat any cover-up or wrongdoing would be improbable Af not Ampossible, The le safe to\nspeculate that with such a set-up there would be more publite confidence that the real\nBobby Baker story had been told.\nThe Democrats have us overwhelmed numerically in Congress. We could say,\nextandy\n\"What's the use? That's no answer for the American people, for you or for ourselves.\nFortundity, there is a constructive 1 rightract in the Republican Party, P (le have development made somo\nreorganization of our internal machinery off ino Ressarch and Planning Committee, what\nhore under Dr. Bill Prendergast, to working at long-range policy eff\nara\ncreating special task forces on major issues in such rapid succession that one"
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